Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Jing: Capture screen actions as videos

Every few weeks, at the end of our Agile Sprint, we prepare demos for the work that was done as part of the sprint. Sometimes we do live demos and sometimes to save time, we just capture those demos and replay them at the sprint end meetings.

For capturing the screen actions into videos, I have found Jing to be an amazing software. The user experience is as simple as it can be. You open up Jing in "Capture" mode, then select the screen real estate you want to capture and say "Capture Video". At the end, you "Stop" and "Save". By default, it allows you to save videos in Flash format (.swf files) that can be played in any Flash compatible browser.

You can also do screenshots in Jing but I have found the Snipping Tool, that comes default with Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, to be more valuable.

Jing is available as freemium download for Windows and Mac.

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